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Daily Kabbalah Lesson

The Daily Page - 29-08-11

The Daily Page is a collection of excerpts taken from the daily Kabbalah lesson with Dr. Michael Laitman and Bnei Baruch

You Can’t Correct Anyone but Yourself

Question: When there are many people
sitting in a hot room, there will always be one person who is cold and who
forces everyone else to turn off the AC. Say most of humanity is able to adapt
to the impending changes. But what should we do about those who are stuck and
are not ready to leave the current state?

Dr.
Laitman's Answer: It's
important to correct yourself rather than the world. True, I want to elicit
external movements and I try to help people understand the process and method
of self-correction. However, in essence, I only care about how to correct
myself. I do not correct my neighbor. I give him the method in the gentlest
form possible, but I do not make him act; this is already his choice.

Therefore,
we do not bother people who aren't ready for change in any way, shape, or form.
They aren't ripe for it yet. When disseminating the Kabbalisic method, we let
every person assess it for himself. I have already stated on numerous occasions
that I don't care how people accept our message. I listen to their responses
only to improve the presentation: to state something in a new way and to answer
a question that bothers someone. But if I have given all I have and a person
still rejects and scorns my words, then I treat him with respect. To me this is
also a sign of success because I was able to approach him and reveal his
resistance. This is the correct reaction for him today, and nothing can be done
about that.

We turn to
the outside world only in order to improve ourselves. And if we improve
ourselves to the best of our ability, then I don't have any complaints about
people's responses. Let's wait another year, or five more years.

However, if
we go too far, this will be coercion and we won't be leaving a person with the
opportunity of free choice.

Nature Does Not Tolerate Imbalance

We are
moving toward balance with nature. It aspires to bring all of its parts to balance. The difference
between temperatures gets balanced out, the wind balances out the difference in
air pressure, an object that is thrown falls down, toward the place where it
will find balance with the force of gravity. The process is aimed at a balanced
state everywhere and in every regard. In any area, be it chemistry, physics,
biology, and so on, everything is built upon this principle. Everything aspires
to equilibrium, to a relief of pressure. Everything submits to the law of
entropy. Nature wishes to become appeased. It does not tolerate differences and
fluctuations in any parameters.

Eventually,
everything has to reach balance. And now the law of nature is demanding balance
in human society. We see outbursts and disorder, and this is nature's way of
demanding balance. The still, vegetative, and animate levels have already had
their turn, and now it's the human level's turn. The desire for balance is
emerging within us, but becoming balanced among us means becoming "as one man
with one heart." We might all be different, but there is one criterion: We are
all obligated to mutually support one another.

And there is
nothing to be done about that: Whether we want it or not, nature will win
because it is a tremendous force.

A question
arises: Why won't we disappear, like the mammoths and dinosaurs? Why don't we
just leave the stage like a part that doesn't fit? After all, our discord with
nature is much greater than that of the extinct dinosaurs. However, unlike
them, we have a mission, a predestination, a goal: We have to correct ourselves
and transform our initial nature. They were unable to do that and they
disappeared with the natural course of evolution, whereas we are obligated to
bring ourselves into balance with the current phase of development.

That is why
we are brought to states where our lack of harmony with nature will become expressed
in the gravest forms, but it won't get to total extinction. 90% of the world
might disappear, but some people will remain nevertheless in order to change
human nature and reach the necessary balance.

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